Song not shown in artists section

I have an IPod Touch 5th Gen with IOS 6, which I bought recently. It was synced to my ITunes using IMatch. So all my songs in ITunes are now in my IPod Touch.
I downloaded a song yesterday (but it was not downloaded from ITunes). I looked up the artist in my IPod Touch, by clicking on "music" on the desktop and then clicking on "artists". I checked for all the artist's songs, The artists songs were listed except for the song I downloaded yesterday. It was not shown. I checked under "artists" for all the artists songs, and also for songs in each album listed for that artist, but the song was not there.
Then I looked for the song under "songs" in my IPod Touch, and the song was there. (Click on music on the desktop, then "songs"). It showed the name of the song and the artist.
I also looked under the appropriate playlist and the song was there too. It showed the name of the song and the artist. It was associated together with the artist's other songs in the playlist, as it should be.
So the song I downloaded yesterday, correctly listing the artist, shows up both in the playlist and under "songs", but the song does not show under "artists". Why? Very few of my songs were downloaded from Apple ITunes, so that is not the problem. This is the only song I had this problem with.

If the only songs by The Doors that you have, are on compilation albums, that's why the artist isn't showing up in the Artists menu. (If you then add an album by The Doors, they would show up.)
However, all is not lost. On your iPod, go into the Settings/Main Menu and un-tick the Compilations. Do the same in Settings/Music Menu. All artists should now appear in the Artist list, subject to...
My habit is to make sure that albums by various artists (proper compilation albums) have "Various Artists" typed into each track in the field Album Artist. (Select the complete album, then use File/Get Info/Info>Album Artist. Make sure it is the Album Artist, not Artist. Also look on File/Get Info/Options>Part of a Compilation and set that to "Yes".
For "greatest hits of <artist x>" albums, I check them to make sure they do not have Part of a Compilation ticked, because they are not proper compilation albums. iTunes doesn't think they are either!

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Hi
I have synced my entire music collection, most of which consists of mp3s ripped from my CD library, onto my 2 week old ipod 30gb with video. I noticed a few days ago that some of the songs from one album weren't listed under the 'by artist' section. It now seems that there are a fair number of songs that are also missing from under their respective artist on the ipod.
The strange part of it is that I know the songs are on the ipod — I can get them to play by making a playlist in itunes and transferring that over. The ipod also reads the correct artist and title tags for the song once it's in the playlist.
I'd much appreciate it if anyone can help me get the songs to appear under the artist list as this is my prefered way of finding my songs.
Thanks
Greg

This isn't foolproof but there are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is marked as part of a compilation or 2) it is missing an album name.
If the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.
Also if tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in, in the absence of one you can just add None or Miscellaneous. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

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Dave, I have this issue too.
I bought entire album from iTunes, an it downloaded successfullly but song tags such as album name were empty.
I deleted album, but, because it was not in Purchases section, I could not download it again.
I found album in Store and tried to buy it again, but Store told me that I already bought this album so would I like to go to Purchases section and download it from there?
Grrrrr, I do not like when a computer wanna be smarter than me.
I wrote a letter to tech support and paralelly called them. It was on last week.
Today I receive letter that they do something and I must check for the new downloads in iTunes.
OK I done it - and album was downloaded again absolutely correctly.
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There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is marked as part of a compilation or 2) the song has no album name associated with it.
if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. If you are using iTunes 8 and view the multiple items info box the compilations setting is in the "Options" tab. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.
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Try downloading it on your computer via iTunes, then syncing it to the phone. When you click Buy, you'll be prompted with a free download, since you already purchased it.
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Songs not appearing under artists

Hi,
I'm going to try and explain this the best way I can,
On my Ipod (30GB), some songs do not appear under the artist.
Example:
I have two songs by Christina Aguilera, A is from the album "Stripped" and the other one (B) I haven't listed any album name (therefore it is Blank). So on my ipod when I go into:
[ Music -> Artist -> Christina Aguilera -> All ]
only song A is shown.
But if I go into [Music -> Songs ] I can find A and B...
So you see my problem,
If you have any idea, please answer,
Regards,
Waq
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"the other one (B) I haven't listed any album name (therefore it is Blank)."
There is the problem.
See: Some songs don't don't show under artist on my iPod.
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Hi,
A new user here
I ripped an audio cd and stored it into Ipod. So in Ipod I can search by artist or album name.
Then later i manually add a few more songs into Ipod by the same artist but i did not enter the album name.
When i brws music library in Ipod, look for the artist name, all i can see are those songs from the CD but not those i added manually. Even though both have the same artist name.
In order to solve this, I hv to remove all the album name for the artists, then only I can view all songs under the artist name.
Can someone explain this strange behaviour?
BTW, my Ipod already updated with latest software from apple.com with Ipod updater.

If you want to view all your songs, you have to give them an album name.
Easiest way is in iTunes sort by Album name. Select all the songs with no album name, Get Info and give them a anme such as Unknown Album. Then they will appear as they should.
It's a hassle to give all the songs an album name.
Okay. I guess you are satisfied not viewing all your songs.
I do notice an UNKNOWN ALBUM folder under the artist name in my Macbook. But the unknown album thingy cannot be located in my Ipod
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I have the same problem with my I Pod nano (1st generation).
It appeared after an software update delivered by apple - now version 1.3.1.
The problem is only there, when you have typed in an album name for one song but not for the other songs. Then he just shows the songs, where the album name is available.
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If you click on Music - Artists - Journey. He directly shows you the contend of the album escape. You can't access to the song "Anytime" - because there you don't have an Album information.
That's a bug in the new software version. It was not in the previous software version.
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Songs not showing up in Artists section

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This isn't foolproof but there are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is marked as part of a compilation or 2) it is missing an album name.
If the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.
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Songs not showing up in ARTISTS???

When i go to look for a song i go to ARTISTS..when i do this some of the songs i have on it arent shown in ARTISTS,but when i go to SONGS they are there...whats wrong???
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This isn't foolproof but there are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is marked as part of a compilation or 2) it is missing an album name.
If the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.
Also if tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances but the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

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Hi scorpion9903,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Information about each item in your library is stored in the item’s Info window. To open the Info window, select the item and then choose File > Get Info.
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Press Enter.
Edit song or CD information
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Tip: If you’re changing the same information (for example, the genre) for multiple items, you can select all the items and change the information for them at the same time.
I hope this information helps ....
Happy Holidays!
- Judy

Songs Not Showing Up Under Artists

So ive put my entire iTunes music library onto my brand new 5th generation Ipod, yet a bunch of my songs arent listed under their appropriate artist. For example, i have a bunch of ACDC songs on my iTunes that are all labelled "ACDC" under Artists with the exact same spelling....yet only one song shows up under ACDC on my iPod. I know that the rest of the songs are on my Ipod because i can reach them by scrolling through by song name, but I'd like them to show up under their appropriate artist too. Any suggestions?
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This isn't foolproof but there are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is marked as part of a compilation or 2) it is missing an album name.
If the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. Compilations are stored in a separate folder in iTunes so the songs don't appear inside the normal Artist>Album folder which may be why this happens.
Also if tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in, in the absence of one you can just add None or Miscellaneous. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

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